I am trying to securely clear out a directory using SDelete. I know that this is used from the Command line, but how I would I go about automatically clearing the directory from my C++ code, also using Qt if this has a built any built in functions. I could not find anything with searching and this is my first time doing something like this. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
It is good that you're not trying to re-create the functionality of SDelete. It would be a LOT of work to do as good as a job as what SDelete does. Invoking the existing application is a wise choice.
Now, on to your question... If you want to use QT, then what you need is something like this:
QString path = QString("sdelete", QStringList() << "Bogus.txt");
QProcess sdelete;
sdelete.start( path );
sdelete.waitForFinished();
That will start the process sdelete with the parameter Bogus.txt and then wait until the application is finished.
More Info: https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qprocess.html#start
Edit from OP : I found that using the following worked for me with the argument being passed in being a QString.
QProcess::execute("sdelete -s path");